Mortuary table, surgeon&#39;s operating table, and the like



April 27, 1926. 1,582,419

J. L. MURPHY MORTUARY TABLE, SURGEONS OPERATING TABLE, AND THE LIKE Filed Dec. 8, 1925 gnm'ntov Patented Apr. 2 7 1926;

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A'pplicationfiled December a, 1925. Serial No. 74,133..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. MURPHY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Canton, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use-v ful Improvements in Mortuary Tables,Surgeons Operating Tables, and the like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying draw- This invention relates to improvements in mortuary tables, surgeons operating-tables and the likeand has for an important object thereof the provision of a table of this character which is provided with a grid upon which the body to be prepared for burial or operated upon may rest.

A further and more specificobject of the invention is the construction of a table of this character in such a manner as to permit drainage from about the body of body fluids, excretions, bathing water and the like which otherwise tend to collect about the corpse and often render the corpse odoriferous.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be either superimposed upon the ordinary mortuary or surgeons table or embodied in a table in the construction thereof, as is found desirable. y

These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustra-r tion is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention and wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of a rack for mortuary and surgeons tables constructed in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is a side elevation partially in section of a table embodying a rack construoted in accordance with my invention;

, Figure 3 is a detail perspective view showing the construction of the rack.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, the grid comprises a body 10 and a head rest 11. The body 10 comprises transversely extending end and intermediate bars 12 and 12 provided with supporting feet 13 having cushion tips adapted to rest upon a suitable base. The bars 12 and 12 are each formed intwo sections, the coacting faces of the sections being provided with aligned notches 14. These notches combine in'the assembled relation of the sections to produce openings of slightly less diameter claimed.

than the diameter oflongitudinally extending rods 15 which form the support forthe body of the corpse. The sections of the rods are held in their assembled relation after the rods have been placed in applied position by rivetsor similar securing-elements, as indicated at 16 and these securing elements serve to bind the sections upon the rods so that shifting of the rods with relation to the bars is prevented.

Certain of the bars are extended beyond one of the end cross members 12, as indicated at 18,to provide the head rest 11 and the extremities of these extensions are connected by a further bar 19 similar to the bars 12. The grid thus formed may be enameled and while preferably constructed as above, may be constructed of heavy wire netting or the like where this is found desirable. The completed grid may be painted or enameled, as is found desirable. 5

Such a grid may be employed upon the ordinary mortuary table or may be em-V bodied in a table such as shown in the drawings wherein theigrid is supported from a pan 2 1, the bottom 22 of which slopes to a drain outlet 23 beneath which is arranged a collection receptacle 24:.

Since the construction of the grid is obviously capable of a certain range of change and modification without materially depart ing from the spirit of the invention, I do not 7 limit myself to the specific structure hereinbefore set forth except as hereinafter or surgeons tables comprising cross bars longitudinally split to provide two sections one of which is provided with supportingfeet and longitudinally extending bars inserted between the sections of the cross bars and to which the sections of the cross bars are feet and longitudinally extending bars inserted between the sections of the cross bars and to which the sections'of the cross bars are clamped, certain of said bars at the centhe combined size of said grooves being less terof the grid thus provided being of greater than the size of the bars to thereby permit length than the remaining bars and being clamping 01": the longitudinally extending 10 connected at their ends by a further cross bars between such sections.

5 ba t vid a h ad r t, th cr s bar 5 In testimony whereof I hereunto afliX my tions having coacting grooves for the pasg fl sage of said longitudinally extending bars, JOHN L. MURPHY. 

